Perils of the New Land: Films of the Immigrant Experience (1910-1915) Film Noir Chaney’s tragic and deeply haunting

Chaney’s tragic and deeply haunting performance as HE is seminal to a grand tradition of scary movie clowns

many of these films have since been rediscovered and appropriately hailed as exceptional and inventive

this entertaining Italian trick-film owes as much to Méliès as it does Doyle

A Night in the Show

Perils of the New Land: Films of the Immigrant Experience (1910-1915) Film Noir Chaney’s tragic and deeply hauntingSTREAM DIGITAL EDITION 2 DISC DVD EDITION This two disc DVD set features The Italian (1915) and Traffic in Souls (1913), two riveting and important social dramas of the American silent screen from the earliest years of feature length cinema, when movies were more dedicated to advocacy and reform than to escapist entertainment. First released near the end of a long period of unrestricted emigration from Europe to the United States, these two films